Re: [PATCH 0/2] printk: replace ringbuffer

[John Ogness]

On 2020-02-14, Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I oversaw that devkmsg_open() setup a printk_record and so I did not
>> see to add the extra NULL initialization of text_line_count. There
>> should be be an initializer function/macro to avoid this danger.
>> 
>> John Ogness
>> 
>> The quick fixup:
>> 
>> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> index d0d24ee1d1f4..5ad67ff60cd9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> @@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ static int devkmsg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>>  	user->record.text_buf_size = sizeof(user->text_buf);
>>  	user->record.dict_buf = &user->dict_buf[0];
>>  	user->record.dict_buf_size = sizeof(user->dict_buf);
>> +	user->record.text_line_count = NULL;
>
> The NULL pointer hidden in the structure also complicates the code
> reading. It is less obvious when the same function is called
> only to get the size/count and when real data.

OK.

> I played with it and created extra function to get this information.
>
> In addition, I had problems to follow the code in
> record_print_text_inline(). So I tried to reuse the new function
> and the existing record_printk_text() there.
>
> Please, find below a patch that I ended with. I booted a system
> with this patch. But I guess that I actually did not use the
> record_print_text_inline(). So, it might be buggy.

Yes, there are several bugs. But I see where you want to go with this:

- introduce prb_count_lines() to handle line counting

- introduce prb_read_valid_info() for only reading meta-data and getting
  the line count

- also use prb_count_lines() internally

I will include these changes in v2. I will still introduce the static
inlines to initialize records because readers and writers do it
differently.

Thanks.

John Ogness